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Originally Posted by slidertogrid
What annoyed me was if I sold a portable I was expected to deliver and install it and yet I had to compete with the supermarkets' and Dixon's cash and carry prices.
By 2000 I saw a drop off of Video repairs and repairs in general. Used sets had much less value as new ones were so cheap (and nasty,) but by the time the customer found out they had bought junk it was too late you had lost the sale.
Rich.
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Hi Rich,
I was the same for me. It wasn't just the matter of selling a £149.00. portable TV set and saying good bye to it, the set had to be delivered and time spent fiddling about with the aerial to receive a decent pictures on all four channels. In due course I solved the problem, just stopped selling the things. Anyway, it was becoming more difficult to compete with the discount stores, even having direct accounts with manufactures didn't help.
For me the golden years were between 1980 to 1990. 1990 to 2000 wasn't too bad either. After that, just awful.
DFWB.